Palladium can prove to be a profitable metal for the investors, considering the number of uses it has to offer. But there are something that you need to consider really well before you are investing in palladium. One of them is the huge price swing that the silvery white metal is prone to. Owing to the unusual properties that this metal has, it is always in great demand. This demand is further accelerated by its limited supply. This is why there has been extreme fluctuations in the price of the metal in the recent past with the metal touching an all time high of $1200.00 U.S. Dollars.